Dicken Ko, MD

Dr. Ko is currently Professor of Surgery at Brown University. Previous positions include Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and has worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School for 22 years. He was Director of Regional Urology for MGH, overseeing affiliates sites, integrating clinical practices, sharing academic and community practices, developing lean practice programs and exploring regional growth opportunities. Before joining the Department of Urology full-time, Dr. Ko worked at MGH as a multi-organ transplant surgeon in the Departments of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery where he was Surgical Director of the Renal Transplant Program. In 2015, Dr. Ko was awarded the inaugural W. Scott McDougal Prize for Teaching and Mentoring in the Department of Urology.
Dr. Ko was instrumental in identifying, coordinating, and facilitating new developments for areas of unmet needs in urology. He co-led the team that performed the first successful genitourinary vascularized composite allograft (penile) transplant in the USA. His groundbreaking innovation has been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, CNN, and over many media outlets worldwide.
Dr. Ko has served on national committees and boards including the UNOS kidney and pancreas committee and on Harvard Medical School committees as well as the American Board of Urology where he is an examiner. His scholarly activities focus on tolerance models of transplantation, urologic outcomes research, and economics of transplantation. Dr. Ko has over 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Urology, Transplantation, and American Journal of Transplantation. He was the 28th President of the Urological Society for Transplantation and Renal Surgery.